{"id":70541,"date":"2025-08-15T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70541\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:46:07","slug":"saliya-saman-handed-five-year-ban-for-anti-corruption-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70541\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliya Saman handed five-year ban for anti-corruption breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> ANTI-CORRUPTION  <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Saman was one of the eight cricketers charged in September 2023 [File]\" title=\"Saman was one of the eight cricketers charged in September 2023 [File]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/saman-was-one-of-the-eight-cri.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Saman was one of the eight cricketers charged in September 2023 [File] \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Former Sri Lankan domestic cricketer Saliya has been banned from all cricket for five years after being found guilty of multiple breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board&#8217;s (ECB) Anti-Corruption Code during the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> An independent ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal, which conducted the hearing on the ECB&#8217;s behalf, ruled that Saman was involved in attempts to corrupt matches in the tournament. The ICC, appointed as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official for the event, had disrupted these attempts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Saman, one of eight people charged in September 2023, was found guilty of: <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8211; Being party to an attempt to fix, contrive or improperly influence matches or aspects of matches in the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 (Article 2.1.1) <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8211; Offering a reward to another participant in exchange for engaging in corrupt conduct (Article 2.1.3) <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8211; Soliciting, inducing or facilitating a participant to breach Article 2.1 of the Code (Article 2.1.4) <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The ban, which follows the presentation of written and oral evidence to the Tribunal, has been backdated to 13 September 2023, the date on which Saman was provisionally suspended. <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANTI-CORRUPTION Saman was one of the eight cricketers charged in September 2023 [File] \u00a9 Getty Former Sri Lankan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-70541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}